Seminar Series
Folded manuscripts (concertinas)
(2022-2023)
Programme
Monday, 21 November 2022, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm CET
- Marilena Maniaci (Cassino/Rome): Introduction
- Patrick Andrist (Munich / Fribourg): ‘The Scroll Matrix’
- Costantino Moretti (Paris): ‘The Concertina in Medieval China’
Monday, 12 December 2022, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm CET
- Cécile Michel (Paris / Hamburg): ‘Cuneiform wax coated writing boards and concertinas’
- Alan Bowman (Oxford): ‘Leaves and Notebooks at Vindolanda’
Monday, 16 January 2023, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm CET
- Sarah Griffin (London) / Megan McNamee (Edinburgh): ‘European Medieval Concertina Almanacs’
- Ewa Balicka-Witakowska (Stockholm): ‘Ethiopian folded manuscripts’
Monday, 13 February 2022, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm CET
- Angelika Danielewski (Berlin): ‘From Bark to Book: Painted Concertinas in Pre-Hispanic Mexico’
- Roberta Zollo (Hamburg): ‘Pustaha laklak: The Concertina Manuscripts of the Toba Batak from North Sumatra’
- Final wrap-up discussion
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About the Seminar
‘Folded manuscripts’ are a wide class of written artefacts that have as a common feature the folding of a surface along a horizontal or vertical axis, or in both directions subsequently (concertinas, leporellos, folded almanacs and ‘bat books’). The relationship of these types of books with the roll and codex forms has been variously interpreted and deserves a more in-depth consideration, which can take advantage of a more accurate material analysis and a broadly comparative perspective. The second series of the seminar devoted to 'Forms of manuscripts and their description' will showcase examples from different eras and manuscript cultures, ranging from Ancient Near East to Medieval China, the Roman Empire, Latin Middle Ages, Ethiopia and contemporary Indonesia. The examples illustrated by the speakers will offer useful elements for the common reflection on how to describe this still little-known category of book-objects.
Patrick Andrist, Alessandro Bausi, Michael Friedrich, Marilena Maniaci
More information on the Permanent Seminar and the previous sessions is available here.